Construction Activity Momentum

It's exciting to see such a variety of building activity indicators moving in a positive direction. Over the last three years, the National Association of Home Builders has reported marked improvements. Single family housing starts increased over 39% from 2009 to 2013 and the trend looks likely to continue. What's more, over the same period, multi-family housing starts increased far more with starts nearly tripling to 307,000.

Similarly, most indicators are favorable for growth in non-residential construction as well. For example, The Wells Fargo's Equipment Finance 2014 Construction Industry Forecast, reports the highest industry optimism of any time in the 19 year history of the report. By comparison, the historic low for this index was 2009. That's quite a turn around in just four years!

Connecting Builders to CWS Service Providers

The CWS website draws a variety of visitors - CWS service providers, regulators and builders all use it to as the most authoritative resource in our industry. We've greatly simplified our website, which provides immediate and marked benefits for all.

For builders and CWS service providers, we're making an effort to get you together even easier. The CWS Locator, visited by hundreds every month, has been reformatted and fitted with great search tool that let's builders search for their local CWS service provider by using their local zip code. For now, we're excluding email addresses because spammers have been relentless in harvesting email addresses off of websites. You've no doubt noticed this if you've had your email listed with us!

We've also made the website mobile friendly, so that it will display well on a variety of devices, such as cell phones and tablets. We hope that these changes will play a small part in increasing your profitability.

Looking for an easy way to increase your exposure? Since CWS is the most visited site related to concrete washout, a simple link from you website to the CWS homepage will help search engines rank you where you belong in your local area - near the top! It only takes a minute and could land you some good clients.